Our government may soon win the “intergalactic championship for fiscal irresponsibility.” Congress is overwhelming the system, recklessly trying to quickly pass one huge spending bill after another.

If there’s no time to scrutinize bills, there’s less opposition. For example, the cap-and-trade bill, is a huge tax. We’ll all be paying much higher taxes and costs for goods and services as energy use is taxed.

Then with the health-care bill, Congress is considering dismantling the best health-care system in the world. Yes, changes are needed but there are less drastic alternatives.

Do you want government to make medical decisions for you? Can you live with bureaucratic nightmares, long waits and rationed, mediocre medical care?

Just Google “problems with government health care” to see examples from other countries. This one-size-fits-all system will cram everyone into a huge bureaucracy filled with fraud, waste and inefficiency.

If this legislation passes, kiss your private health-care plan goodbye. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office just reported that this legislation will actually increase skyrocketing medical costs rather than reduce them.

Who’ll eventually pay for all of this? Middle America, of course. The U.S. Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121. Please stop this orgy of spending.

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